Download or read book Where s My Mother s Leg written by Dan DiStefano and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous view of what really happened after you dropped mom off at the nursing home. "If you can't find the humor working in a skilled nursing facility you'll go home every night wishing vodka came out of your shower." Ned Russo thought he had it all. Lovely home in Pasadena, a beautiful ex-wife who didn't hate him, a charming daughter at UCLA that adored him and a cushy job with a fat salary he earned as the administrator of one of the premier nursing homes in Los Angeles. He even had a giant office that overlooked the pacific ocean. But, as a wise man once said, "things change." Ned got fired. It took ten minutes for reality to suddenly hit him squarely in the face. There was the mortgage and tuition for his daughter, the car payment and of course his alimony. So Ned took the first job he could find. It would just be temporary. It would also be a far cry from breezy Santa Monica. It was situated in the bowels of LA's Koreatown. But his job at the Central City Convalescent wasn't just a step down for Ned, it was more like falling off Mount Everest and landing on the roof of a Sherpa's hut. Ned's journey and re-education in how the other half lives is a funny look at life in that nursing home down the block or that place where Grandma now resides or perhaps where you might end up. Be kind to your children, they're going to pick out your nursing home!
Download or read book How Green Was My Valley written by Richard Llewellyn and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international-bestselling winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Academy Award–winning film directed by John Ford. Huw Morgan remembers the days when his home valley was prosperous, verdant, and beautiful—before the mines came to town. The youngest son of a respectable mining family in South Wales, he is now the only one left in the valley, and his reminiscences tell the story of a family and a town both defined and ruined by the mines. Huw’s story is both joyful and heartrending—a portrait of a place and a people existing now only in memory. Full of memorable characters, richly crafted language, and surprising humor, How Green Was My Valley is the first of four books chronicling Huw’s life, including the sequels Up into the Singing Mountain, Down Where the Moon is Small, and Green, Green My Valley Now. “The reader emerges from these tense pages strangely aglow with sharing the happiness of the characters . . . The simplicity of the language and its delicately strange flavor give the book added charm.” —Chicago Tribune
Download or read book The Leisure Hour written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Life In Miniature written by Linda Schlossberg and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a powerful new voice in fiction comes a compelling debut about the delicate bond between daughters and mothers, and about leaving everything you know in order to find the place where you belong. Adie has always known she was different. There's her size, for one thing. Born three months premature, Adie is the smallest of her peers. Then there's Adie's mother, who at first glance seems like so many other 1980s moms--clipping coupons and attending Feel the Burn aerobics classes. But beneath the surface is something erratic and unpredictable, something that makes her drag Adie and her older sister, Miriam, from one rental apartment to the next--until Miriam runs away. Adie is left behind with her mother, who is convinced their lives are in real danger and takes Adie on a crazy run across northern California. Now Adie faces a stark choice: submit to this increasingly surreal adventure, or grow up in ways she never imagined. . . "Life in Miniature is a stunning double portrait, subtly capturing a daughter's misconceptions of her mother's delusions--while simultaneously revealing the consequences for both--in a compulsively readable and deeply insightful first novel." --Jonathon Keats, author of The Book of the Unknown ". . .a book of intelligence and grace that will make you laugh and cry." --Terry Gamble, author of Good Family Linda Schlossberg received her PhD in English literature from Harvard University, where she is the Assistant Director of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. Her fiction has been recognized by the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, the National League of American PEN Women, and Writers at Work. She has also received research and writing grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as well as several awards for excellence in teaching. Linda lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Download or read book Cornish Characters and Strange Events written by S. Baring-Gould and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornwall, a land of unique and original characters, has a rich history of strange events and notable people. From the mineral wealth that attracted thousands of men underground to the wild coast that bred hardy seamen and smugglers, S. Baring-Gould's 'Cornish Characters and Strange Events' chronicles the stories of lesser-known luminaries whose tales of political intrigue, religious fanaticism, and piracy are full of captivating and extraordinary experiences. As the author puts it, Cornwall is a land of fascinating mysteries and legends, from tales of fairies to the haunting story of Anne Jefferies, and this book is here to present these stories to you.
Download or read book The Truth about Chronic Pain written by Arthur Rosenfeld and published by . This book was released on 2004-12-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's all in your head. "Learn to bear it." "That drug will make you a junkie."For the more than 75 million Americans affected by chronic pain, these are fighting words.Despite extraordinary medical progress in recent years, millions of people, debilitated by the pain of incurable cancer, crippling arthritis, unremitting headaches, and a host of degenerative disorders, continue to suffer needlessly. Here, in their own words, are the stories of more than forty people whose lives are dictated by pain-patients, healthcare professionals, ethicists, social commentators, and scientists-shining a powerful searchlight on America's most misunderstood health problem.The Truth About Chronic Pain reveals why pain is so often ignored or under-treated. Among the reasons are the widespread belief that pain is a sign of weakness and the unfounded fears that properly administered painkillers will cause addiction. As bureaucrats, doctors, and pharmacists become adversaries in the War on Drugs, people in pain are often denied the relief they need.The voices on these pages are an eloquent testament to individual courage and a powerful plea to medical institutions, political leaders, and insurance companies to implement effective solutions to the problem of pain.
Download or read book The Impact of One Voice Volume 1 Your Voice Story and Message Matters written by Arvee Robinson and published by Hybrid Global Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of us possesses unique gifts that we can give to the world–that we owe to ourselves and to our communities to share. Hidden within these pages is the inspiration you’ve been waiting for to let your inner voice shine. Dive into the inspiring lives of the empowered authors of The Impact of One Voice: Your Voice, Story, and Message Matters as they harness their voices to create meaningful change in their lives and careers.
Download or read book The Unitarian Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Fight the Power written by Eric Leif Davin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-11-12 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Leif DaVietnamesen was raised as a Southern Baptist and Mormon convert, although he was always a non-believer. However, like everyone else in his blue collar surroundings, he believed in America, the military, anti-Communism, and, although too young to vote, Senator Barry Goldwater when he ran for president in 1964. Then, in the Sixties, he went to college and became swept up in the movements of the times. He came to realize that everything he'd believed about "his war," the Vietnameseetnam War, was wrong. He came to believe that we were more than just on the "wrong side." We were the wrong side. Eventually he was drafted. However, he refused induction into the military, preferring to face five years in prison, the maximum sentence, rather than fight in an immoral war. This memoir describes his journey through the Sixties, from a working class gung-ho Goldwater Republican supporter of the Vietnameseetnam War to a radicalized anti-war actiVietnamesest who was eventually drafted to fight in that war -- but refused to go.
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Download or read book Boy and Girl Tramps of America written by Thomas Minehan and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-01-27 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1933 and 1934, Thomas Minehan, a young sociologist at the University of Minnesota, joined the ranks of a roving army of 250,000 boys and girls torn from their homes during the Great Depression. Disguised in old clothes, he hopped freight trains crisscrossing six midwestern states. While undercover, Minehan associated on terms of social equality with several thousand transients, collecting five hundred life histories of the young migrants. The result was a vivid and intimate portrayal of a harrowing existence, one in which young people suffered some of the deadliest blows of the economic disaster. Boy and Girl Tramps of America reveals the poignant experiences of American youth who were sent out on the road by grinding poverty, shattered family relationships, and financially strapped schools that locked their doors. For these young people, danger was a constant companion that could turn deadly in an instant. The book documents the hunger and hardships these youth faced, capturing an appalling spectacle and social problem in America’s history before any effort was made to meet the problem on a nationwide basis by the federal government. Boy and Girl Tramps of America is a work unique in its ability to extend beyond statistical analyses to uncover the opinions, ideas, and attitudes of the boxcar boys and girls. Originally published in 1934, it remains highly relevant to the turbulent moments of the twenty-first century. This reprint features an introduction by scholar Susan Honeyman that puts the work into our current context.
Download or read book Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chicken Shack Growing Up Black and Poor in Alabama During the 1940 s 50 s and 60 s written by Joe Nathan Hill and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes what life was like for my family and me living in rural, rurban, and urban Alabama during the 1940’s, 50’s, and 60’s. Life for a poor black family living in Alabama during these decades was quite challenging. Even more challenging was being a poor black male growing up in Alabama during the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s. This is my story.
Download or read book Spirituality beyond Borders written by Kathleen McCallie and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do international encounters in Nicaragua connect spiritual formation and liberation theology to transform communities? Seekers of justice from around the world found inspiration in the Nicaraguan revolution and struggle for freedom. After recognizing the patronizing, neocolonial structure of missionary models of aid, pastor Leslie Penrose founded a nonprofit organization, JustHope, with core values of solidarity, mutuality, collaboration, and sustainability in partnership. Hundreds of participants have joined this quest to enact the compassionate and just ethics of the Hebrew prophets and the liberating power of Jesus. Inspiring stories of Nicaraguan-led creativity exploring a new future with volunteers from the U.S. are told by pastoral theologian and ethicist Kathleen McCallie. Framed as an interdisciplinary case study of seminary students traveling for solidarity to explore social justice with JustHope, the book offers glimpses of one group’s journey. Readers explore possibilities for an international partnership between U.S. volunteers and Nicaraguan community organizers. The Nicaraguan base-community model offers critiques of and alternatives to the church in the U.S. and neoliberal development. McCallie contributes to academic and activist discourses about dismantling abusive theology, racism, sexism, and U.S. hegemony.
Download or read book Why Entrepreneurship written by Frederique Media Productions and published by Frederique Media Productions. This book was released on 2014-04-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think of the word entrepreneurship, the first thing that comes to mind is business or making money. The topics discussed in Why Entrepreneurship? What is IT All About? scrutinize the growing issues facing our economy, education system, children, jobs, immigration, and even our faith. This book will open your eyes and show you the different aspects to why humanity must transform to the new mindset of a 21st century entrepreneur. What you will learn is that entrepreneurship has more to do with God's original intentions for our lives, a way of life, a form of survival, freedom, wisdom, and less to do with money or business. Why Entrepreneurship is truly an eye opener for baby boomers, early retirees, immigrants, and the working class. Dimitry hits on all the major topics that governs your life today and the future of job security. His startling prediction for the next 50 to 100 years of how the job market will change truly makes him a visionary ahead of his time. Learn the necessary skills needed to diversify your life rather than keeping up with the Jones. For those of you who are already in business for yourself this book will reinforce your belief system and open your eyes to new concepts of residual income, time freedom, and the reasons why you should be open to the idea of generating multiple streams of income from multiple sources rather than from your current brick and mortar business model. Learn to leverage your small business by becoming a global commodity that is opened 24 hours a day.
